Association between chronic neck pain and sleep duration in US adults: A cross-sectional study

Abstract

The relationship between sleep duration and chronic neck pain is poorly understood. Therefore, we explore this association by compiling data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) ranging from 2009 to 2010, including 3036 adults (age ≥ 20 years). We selected sex, gender, education level, race, marital status, alcohol status, smoking status, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, PIR(poverty-income ratio), and BMI༈Body mass index༉ as covariates. WTMEC2YR as weights for multivariate logistic regression models analysis. In the total population, the second, third, and fourth quartiles had an OR of 0.56 (95%CI: 0.38, 0.84); 0.40 (95%CI: 0.24,0.66); 0.77(95%CI: 0.32,1.83) compared with the lowest reference group of sleep duration for chronic neck pain (Ptrend=0.03). When sleep duration is less than 7.45 hours, sleep duration has a negative relationship with the incidence of chronic neck pain (P < 0.05). And the optimal sleep hours show the difference among the gender; the optimal sleep time in the female group is 6.27 hours (P < 0.001), and in the male group is 7.75 hours (P < 0.001).